The age of insight

the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain from 1900 to the present. by eric b. Kandel

Allan Janik

pp. 267-279

in: Christian Damböck (ed), Influences on the Aufbau, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

The "rock star of neuroscience," as Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel has aptly been termed, has produced a provocative multi-disciplinary blockbuster whose many facets can scarcely be adequately summarized, let alone analysed, in a brief review such as this. His immensely learned effort to reconcile the "two cultures" encapsulates a lifetime devoted at once into research into the biological basis of memory and refined appreciation of art. The Age of Insight consists of a mammoth argument, based on the premise that the sciences and the arts can learn from one another and constituted by seven elaborately interconnected elements. Thus Kandel links

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